auxlang
/ˈɔks.læŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "One of the most successful auxlangs is Esperanto, which has native speakers."
- "A distinction is usually made between auxiliary languages (auxlangs), designed with international communication as a deliberate goal, and “conlangs,” usually constructed for other purposes. (The Elvish languages showcased by Tolkien[…]and the Klingon language[…]are conlangs rather than auxlangs.)"
- "Volapük was the first auxlang to develop a community of speakers, after its launch in 1879 by Schleyer (Eco, 1993)."
- "Since at least the 17th century (and quite probably before that), various people have created artificially constructed languages (or conlangs), for the most part in order to offer humanity a neutral, easily mastered and logical means of interethnic communication (an auxlang)"
- "The second was composed of those who wanted to talk about an international auxiliary language for the real world (the auxlangers). The auxlang group included a few devoted Esperantists and a larger group[…]."
- "Other auxlangs of this period include Joseph Schipfer’s Communicationssprache (1839), a simplified version of French; Jean Pirro’s Universalglot (1868), one of the first fully developed auxlangs to integrate linguistic features from multiple languages; and Johann Martin Schleyer’s Volapük (1880), which was the most successful auxlang until Esperanto supplanted it."